Got out today and did the same thing... look for fish. Especially Gator trout. Maximized most of my time lately to the dedication of finding, hooking, fighting and releasing those yellow mouthed purpled headed fish. After evaluating the day one may not expect a day like today to be very successful # neap tide, 25mph winds, cold and dirty water and a fishing app/calander that says today will be a bad day to fish...
Lets rewind a week into the past shall we. Its been below 55 consistantly with nights getting into the low 40's or even high 30's. The tides were fluctuating steady with decent high to low spectrum and we have had a steady wind from the North. Today however was much different completely opposite in every way except for wind speed however it was coming from a different direction. Im talking about how weather patterns can dictate when fish bite just as much as the tidal charts or in this case even more so. Lets break down as to why tidal movement is a good thing, well for obvious reason it gets the water moving, raises / lowers the water which brings bait to areas and or allows fish to reach areas where they couldn't have otherwise. Those are just some general formalities of how tide plays its role into dictating wheather or not its going to be a good day to fish or not... but is it 100% full proof? Of course not which brings up my point of how weather patterns can play just as big a role as the tidal chart regardless of what the tide maybe doing. Wind can push water just like the tide does and can add or subtract water from any given area based upon wind direction. Thus with a given direction wind you may have a incoming or outgoing tide... per say.
After being in the water for about 2 hours today I finally landed my first fish it was a solid 18-20" trout. I paused for a moment and conducted a survey as to why I thought the fish was there surveying water movement, depth, clarity, bottom contour, even calculating how long the sun hits that bank for... exc exc. By my 5th cast in the same spot I realized something just within casting distance a mudline in the water or tide line however you want to call it and it was moving along with the wind pretty fast. The wind was blowing so hard it created line between dirty water down wind and cleaner water up wind... PA POW!! for as long as that line was in front of me it was game on, just magical. I landed 3 trout over 21" although nothing over 23" with a handful between 17-18". The magical line was moving away from me with every passing minute that went by. At this point I desperately needed a fishing partner to snap some pics and high five ( i was wading so pictures wasn't a big part of this trip unfortunately ) So I made way back to the truck to give Ole Jeff a call to let him know its was ON, but he couldnt make it out. So content with the day I decided to leave the fish biting.
*** all fish over 21 were released right away they swam away strong and I hope to see them reach 30" one day
Tight Lines and Good Fishin
Lets rewind a week into the past shall we. Its been below 55 consistantly with nights getting into the low 40's or even high 30's. The tides were fluctuating steady with decent high to low spectrum and we have had a steady wind from the North. Today however was much different completely opposite in every way except for wind speed however it was coming from a different direction. Im talking about how weather patterns can dictate when fish bite just as much as the tidal charts or in this case even more so. Lets break down as to why tidal movement is a good thing, well for obvious reason it gets the water moving, raises / lowers the water which brings bait to areas and or allows fish to reach areas where they couldn't have otherwise. Those are just some general formalities of how tide plays its role into dictating wheather or not its going to be a good day to fish or not... but is it 100% full proof? Of course not which brings up my point of how weather patterns can play just as big a role as the tidal chart regardless of what the tide maybe doing. Wind can push water just like the tide does and can add or subtract water from any given area based upon wind direction. Thus with a given direction wind you may have a incoming or outgoing tide... per say.
After being in the water for about 2 hours today I finally landed my first fish it was a solid 18-20" trout. I paused for a moment and conducted a survey as to why I thought the fish was there surveying water movement, depth, clarity, bottom contour, even calculating how long the sun hits that bank for... exc exc. By my 5th cast in the same spot I realized something just within casting distance a mudline in the water or tide line however you want to call it and it was moving along with the wind pretty fast. The wind was blowing so hard it created line between dirty water down wind and cleaner water up wind... PA POW!! for as long as that line was in front of me it was game on, just magical. I landed 3 trout over 21" although nothing over 23" with a handful between 17-18". The magical line was moving away from me with every passing minute that went by. At this point I desperately needed a fishing partner to snap some pics and high five ( i was wading so pictures wasn't a big part of this trip unfortunately ) So I made way back to the truck to give Ole Jeff a call to let him know its was ON, but he couldnt make it out. So content with the day I decided to leave the fish biting.
*** all fish over 21 were released right away they swam away strong and I hope to see them reach 30" one day
Tight Lines and Good Fishin